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Original Articles

The Resistance to Change Scale: Assessing Dimensionality and Associations with Personality and Wellbeing in Adolescents

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Pages 604-615 | Received 12 Feb 2019, Accepted 23 Aug 2019, Published online: 25 Oct 2019

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